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It is picked out from amongst ordinary stones partly because of its shape, and partly because of rough and much-worn chippings that suggest the hand of art or of nature, according to your turn of mind. Take one by itself, explains Mr. Harrison, and you will be sure to rank it as ordinary road-metal.
It is said that these stones lay in a field near Germoe till last century, when they were broken up for road-metal, and that they consisted of a kind of gritstone common enough to the Crowza Downs, but quite unknown in the district where they lay.
"It looks very miserable," said Lasse, comparing in his own mind the stones here with Madam Olsen's fat land. "Oh, well," answered the head man, "it's not of the very best, of course; but the land yields something, anyhow." And he pointed to the fine large heaps of road-metal and hewn stone that surrounded every cottage.
But for flowers and ravishing perfume, we had none to envy: our heap of road-metal was thick with bloom, like a hawthorn in the front of June; our red, baking angle in the mountain, a laboratory of poignant scents.
The foreman said it was odd, but there was less of that sort of thing than formerly. 'C'est difficile, he added, 'a expliquer. When we were well up on the moors and the Conductor was trying some road-metal with the gauge 'Hark! said the foreman, 'do you hear nothing? We listened, and the wind, which was blowing chilly out of the east, brought a faint, tangled jangling to our ears.
Ay!" "The damned ill-faured brute, to bite Annie Anderson!" "But there's nae stanes to be gotten i' the snaw, General," said Cadger. "Ye gomeril! Ye'll get mair stanes nor ye'll carry, I doobt, up o' the side o' the toll-road yonner. Naething like road-metal!" A confused chorus of suggestions and exclamations now arose, in the midst of which Willie Macwha, whose cognomen was Curly-pow, came up.
We crossed quite a number of thoroughfares with tram-lines I had no idea there were so many and it was a revelation to me to find how numerous the railway arches were in this part of London and how continually the nature of the road-metal varied. It was by no means a dull journey this time.
Arrived at Vauxhall Station, we alighted and forthwith made our way to the bridge that spans Upper Kennington Lane near its junction with Harleyford Road. "Here is our starting point," said Thorndyke. "From this place to the house is about three hundred yards say four hundred and twenty paces and at about two hundred paces we ought to reach our patch of new road-metal. Now, are you ready?
In the case of these latter, except where the soil is naturally dry and firm, some attention should be given to the improvement of the surface; and it is to be considered whether to adopt the expensive process of covering with broken stone road-metal, or to use gravel.
"Very well; we are better mounted, and must overtake em", said Oak. "Now on at full speed!" No sound of the rider in their van could now be discovered. The road-metal grew softer and more clayey as Weatherbury was left behind, and the late rain had wetted its surface to a somewhat plastic, but not muddy state. They came to cross-roads. Coggan suddenly pulled up Moll and slipped off.
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